Geography

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Co-Managed Research: Non-Indigenous Thoughts on an Indigenous Toponymy Project in Northern British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Karen Heikkilä
Gail Fondahl
Journal of Cultural Geography, vol. 29, no. 1, In Between Worlds: Place, Experience, and Research in Indigenous Geography, 2012, pp. 61-86
Description
Looks back at a 2003 study on Dakelh place names and experiences faced while negotiating Indigenous, place-based cultural research.
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The Code Breakers

Alternate Title
The Nature of Things ; 2010-2011
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Niobe Thompson
Tom Radford
Description
Presents new archaeological discoveries about when the first humans entered the new world. Episode of The Nature of Things which was broadcast January 13, 2011. Duration: 45:13
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Colonial Encounters: The Worlds of Arthur Wellington Clah, 1855-1881

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
R. M. Galois
BC Studies, no. 115/116, Native Peoples and Colonialism, Autumn/Winter, 1997/1998, pp. 105-148
Description
Diaries kept by Clah show the evolution of the colonial Tsimshian culture and his interactions with parts of the non-Native economy and the missionary promoters.
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Commentary: Tribal Implementation of GIS: A Case Study of Planning Applications With the Colville Confederated Tribes

Alternate Title
Tribal Implementation of GIS: A Case Study of Planning Applications With the Colville Confederated Tribes
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael E. Marchand
Richard Winchell
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 16, no. 4, 1992, pp. 175-183
Description
Paper presents a case study of critical issues in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) within the tribal government of one of ten demonstration projects selected.
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Concept Mapping: Application of Community-Based Methodology in Three Urban Aboriginal Populations

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michelle Firestone
Janet Smylie
Sylvia Maracle
Connie Siedule
De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Access Centre
Métis Nation of Ontario
Patricia O'Campo
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 38, no. 4, 2014, pp. 85-104
Description
Research attempts to create accessible and culturally relevant Aboriginal health data in Ontario by employing concept mapping.
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Contemporary Archaeologies of the Southwest

Alternate Title
Acts of History: Ritual, Landscape and Historical Archaeology in the U.S. Southwest and Northern Mexico
Proceedings of the Southwest Symposium: 10th: 2006
E-Books
Author/Creator
William Walker
Kathryn R. Venzor
Ruth M. Van Dyke
Christine G. Ward
Anna Sofaer ... [et al.]
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Cracks in the Knowledge: Sea Ice Terms in Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Scott A. Heyes
Canadian Geographer, vol. 55, no. 1, Geographies of Inuit Sea Ice Use, Spring, 2011, p. 69–90
Description
Discusses sea ice characteristics from an Indigenous knowledge perspective; and looks at the history and future of sea ice knowledge and terminology.
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Cultivating Ignorance of Aboriginal Realities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Anne Godlewska
Jackie Moore
C. Drew Bednasek
The Canadian Geographer, vol. 54, no. 4, Winter, 2010, pp. 417-440
Description
Looks at Canadian and world studies at an Ontario secondary school and the need for more inclusive perceptions of Aboriginal People within geography related curriculums.
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Cultural and Natural Areas of Native North America

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.38
E-Books
Author/Creator
Alfred L.Kroeber
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 38 (pp1-242).
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Cultural Regions

Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Our Legacy
kã-ki-pe-isi-nakatamãkawiyahk
Description
Geographical map of the Indigenous cultural regions of North America.
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Culture Element Distributions: III Area and Climax

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.37, no.3
E-Books
Author/Creator
A. L. Kroeber
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37, (pp101-116).
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Culture Element Distributions IV: Pomo

Alternate Title
University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology ; v.37, no.4
E-Books
Author/Creator
E. W. Gifford
A. L. Kroeber
Description
Part of: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, vol. 37, (pp117-254).
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A Current Synthesis of the Northern Archaic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Julie A. Esdale
Arctic Anthropology, vol. 45, no. 2, 2008, pp. 3-38
Description
Comments on the formulation of the Northern Archaic and lists the nearly 200 notched projectile point sites found in Alaska and Yukon.
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The Danish Meteorological Service in Greenland

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Helge Petersen
Arctic, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1948, pp. 27-33
Description
Looks at location of stations, terrestrial magnetism, radio transmission to Denmark and problems with the transmissions and distribution of synoptic stations.
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Decolonizing Geographies of Power: Indigenous Digital Counter-mapping Practices on Turtle Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Dallas Hunt
Shaun A. Stevenson
Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, 2017, pp. 372-392
Description
Discusses how a digital map of Amiskwaciwaskahikan (Cree for Edmonton, Alberta), along with an overlay of Treaty 6 Indigenous maps onto a conventional map can be used to show Indigenous people were in Canada in a tangible way. Also looks at the Ogimaa Mikana project in Toronto, Ontario.
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